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Great insight into tentative beginning of country at Plymouth, MA that cold November 20, 1620. Without First Peoples their ill prepared beachhead would have been littered with Pilgrim driftwood.

An interesting and difficult read from 1942 about temptation, misdirection, and the role that religion plays in moral development all from a devilish POV. Lewis ends with a toast to Aristotle’s question about democratic behavior related to concept of equality vs. behavior that promotes democracy related to concept of equal opportunity and the inherent unequal individual differences that are a natural result.

A bit of a slog getting to her final corpulent end.

I guess it was good in its time, I couldn’t wait to get back on shore.

Starting a little slowly. Well researched and full of clever trivia about nothing. You can tell its not written by a Russian, too happy-go-lucky, right. The aristocratic holdover is sentenced to life in the Metropol hotel; no gulag for this guy. So far no misery or turning into a bug. Tragedy to come, grey skies and scud ahead?